Books in the Cass Series: Naval Policy and History series

Explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. This book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of operation.

Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called nineteenth-century evangelist of sea power. Chinese analysts invoke Mahan's writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. This book aims to test the interplay between Western military thought and Chinese strategic traditions. It examines how Mahanian thought shaped China's encounters on high seas.

This study revises the definition of maritime power through a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation for the roles played by the merchant marine of a nation.

Based on extensive work in Russian archives, this book investigates how strategy, organizational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval development in the Soviet Union up to the invasion of 1941. The Soviet Navy's weak position among the armed services made a joint approach to military planning hard to achieve.

This book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s through to the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990.

Examines the contribution of naval power to strategic victory by focusing on the decision to open a theater in an ongoing war, and the contribution of such 'peripheral' expeditions to strategic victory, from the 19th century to Iraq.

This volume brings together a set of scholarly, readable and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval mutinies of the 20th century.